Quotes About Greek Civilization

#1. For a moment, in his arms, with my mind so close to his heart, I listen to the wind pick up and think it just might lift us off our feet and take us with it.

Jandy Nelson

#2. The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

Karl Popper

#3. Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list
the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Karl Marx

#4. She didn't say anything - at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak.

J.X. Burros

#5. I'm not trying to capture one face. I'm trying to capture all the faces.

Katja Millay

#6. His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.

D.T. Max

#7. What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#8. First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.

Jean-Luc Godard

#9. If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

Aristotle.

#10. I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Simone Weil

#11. I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it's nothing: it's only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and all the other illusions that constitute the civilization in which I feel.
Where can the living be?

Fernando Pessoa

#12. To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

Garet Garrett

#13. All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

William Dean Howells

#14. An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization

Joe Novella

#16. The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals

John Mark Reynolds

#17. I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.

Wayne Coyne

#18. All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

William E. Gladstone

#19. If it wasn't for all the blinds in the world it would be curtains for the rest of us.

Rick Haynes

#20. The Italians are called "Children of the Sun". They might better be called "Children of the Shadow". Their souls are dark and nocturnal.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

Paul Reubens

#22. Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

Stanislaw Ulam

#23. Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

W. H. Auden